On Castro Street near 18th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Renowned poet, leading figure of the Beat Generation of American writers and artists, champion of freedom of expression and sexual self-determination. — — Map (db m99801) HM
On East 2nd Street east of Avenue A, on the right when traveling west.
Internationally acclaimed poet and
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
lived here from August 1958 to March 1961.
His signal poem Howl (1956) helped launch
The Beat Generation.
Kaddish (1961), a . . . — — Map (db m105140) HM
On Delmar Boulevard east of Westgate Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Born at 1664 Pershing Avenue, William Burroughs attended community school and John Burroughs School. We was a cub reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1935, during World War II. Burroughs met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, forming the core . . . — — Map (db m124690) HM
